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May 8, 2025
Haitian Leaders and Global Partners Gather at Notre Dame to Reimagine Education in Haiti
More than 40 Haitian educators, practitioners, donors, religious leaders, and researchers convened at the University of Notre Dame on April 10–11, 2025, to chart bold, collaborative solutions for transforming Haiti’s education system. Hosted by Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the...
Neil Boothby
February 12, 2025
Neil Boothby Receives Prestigious Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society
The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) has awarded the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award to Neil Boothby , Professor and Director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) in the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) at the University of Notre...
Caterpillar Tag
February 3, 2025
Empowering through education: A pathway out of poverty for children in India
When Anaya was in third grade in a primary school outside Hyderabad, India, she was told she would have to arrive an hour before the other students each day to clean the classrooms and toilets. Once she reached her class, she was often isolated, bullied, and overlooked. Because she was born into a...
Neil Boothby speaking at panel.
December 12, 2024
Notre Dame Panel Explores Role of Catholic Church in Advancing Early Childhood Development for Vulnerable Children Worldwide
A panel of experts recently gathered at the University of Notre Dame to explore the university’s unique role in driving global change by integrating scientific knowledge with the wisdom of the Church. The event, Seeds of Compassion: Nurturing Early Childhood Development Globally in Catholic...
Children in school
October 17, 2024
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: Leveraging Science and Catholic Values to Fight Poverty Globally
Neil Boothby —professor and director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) —recently joined the GC-DWC’s Communications Associate, Brooke Parker , for a conversation on creating pathways out of adversity for children living on the margins of society, with a specific...
Faculty Development Program at India’s Osmania University
August 22, 2024
GC-DWC Faculty and Staff Develop Whole Child Development SEL Curriculum to be Implemented in over 70 University Degree Programs Across India
The Telangana state government asked the University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child ( GC-DWC ) to develop curriculum focused on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Whole Child Development (WCD) for a new course being implemented in over 70 universities and...
Farida Shaheed
May 10, 2024
University of Notre Dame Hosts Consultation with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education
On May 6, the Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic (led by Professor Diane Desierto ) and Education Law Project (led by Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett ) welcomed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Pakistani sociologist Farida Shaheed , during her first official...
Image of a teacher (left) showing a student (right) a picture of a tree
February 29, 2024
Using intervention science, Notre Dame researchers are creating proven pathways out of adversity for the world’s most vulnerable children
This story was originally published by Brett Beasley from Notre Dame Research. Click here to view the original story . Neil Boothby has observed some of the most tragic events of the last 40 years, including war, genocide, and natural disasters. He has seen them not as an eyewitness but through the...
Teacher
January 31, 2023
The GC-DWC receives $600,000 award to create WCD training center in India
The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) at the University of Notre Dame has received a $600,000 award from Porticus, a global philanthropic organization, to create a whole child development (WCD) training center in India. The GC-DWC will serve as the anchor organization for...
What could we do?
April 28, 2022
Imagine Tomorrow Today: What could we do?
In the inaugural conversation of our new education, forward-focused series, Imagine Tomorrow Today, Neil Boothby, Fr. Lou DelFra, and Danta Bien-Aimé explore the compatibility of faith and science in activating the Church to invest in child development and learning: Thinking globally and acting...

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